Sat July 18, 2015
Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR, 1983)
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New 35mm Print!
"Nostalghia is not so much a movie as a place to inhabit for two hours," J. Hoberman wrote in the Village Voice. "'Look at it as though it were the window in a train traveling through your life,' is Tarkovsky's advice." The film follows the travels of a Russian intellectual in Italy on a nebulous research project; its breathtaking procession of images parallels the protagonist's mental state, disorientation approaching the sublime. Shot mostly in Tuscany, this is Tarkovsky's own "Voyage in Italy," a pilgrimage to ruined but magical spaces—a remote chapel of miracles, a decrepit pool where, it is said, Saint Catherine of Siena once bathed—that suggest both the decay and the eternality of faith. Tarkovsky envisions a place where apocalypse may be imminent, but a single candle flame could save the world.
• Written by Tarkovsky, Tonino Guerra. Photographed by Giuseppe Lanci. With Oleg Yankovsky, Domizia Giordano, Erland Josephson, Patrizia Terreno. (125 mins, In Italian with English subtitles, Color/B&W, 35mm, From Kino Lorber)
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"Nostalghia is not so much a movie as a place to inhabit for two hours," J. Hoberman wrote in the Village Voice. "'Look at it as though it were the window in a train traveling through your life,' is Tarkovsky's advice." The film follows the travels of a Russian intellectual in Italy on a nebulous research project; its breathtaking procession of images parallels the protagonist's mental state, disorientation approaching the sublime. Shot mostly in Tuscany, this is Tarkovsky's own "Voyage in Italy," a pilgrimage to ruined but magical spaces—a remote chapel of miracles, a decrepit pool where, it is said, Saint Catherine of Siena once bathed—that suggest both the decay and the eternality of faith. Tarkovsky envisions a place where apocalypse may be imminent, but a single candle flame could save the world.
• Written by Tarkovsky, Tonino Guerra. Photographed by Giuseppe Lanci. With Oleg Yankovsky, Domizia Giordano, Erland Josephson, Patrizia Terreno. (125 mins, In Italian with English subtitles, Color/B&W, 35mm, From Kino Lorber)
New 35mm Print!
"Nostalghia is not so much a movie as a place to inhabit for two hours," J. Hoberman wrote in the Village Voice. "'Look at it as though it were the window in a train traveling through your life,' is Tarkovsky's advice." The film follows the travels of a Russian intellectual in Italy on a nebulous research project; its breathtaking procession of images parallels the protagonist's mental state, disorientation approaching the sublime. Shot mostly in Tuscany, this is Tarkovsky's own "Voyage in Italy," a pilgrimage to ruined but magical spaces—a remote chapel of miracles, a decrepit pool where, it is said, Saint Catherine of Siena once bathed—that suggest both the decay and the eternality of faith. Tarkovsky envisions a place where apocalypse may be imminent, but a single candle flame could save the world.
• Written by Tarkovsky, Tonino Guerra. Photographed by Giuseppe Lanci. With Oleg Yankovsky, Domizia Giordano, Erland Josephson, Patrizia Terreno. (125 mins, In Italian with English subtitles, Color/B&W, 35mm, From Kino Lorber)
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"Nostalghia is not so much a movie as a place to inhabit for two hours," J. Hoberman wrote in the Village Voice. "'Look at it as though it were the window in a train traveling through your life,' is Tarkovsky's advice." The film follows the travels of a Russian intellectual in Italy on a nebulous research project; its breathtaking procession of images parallels the protagonist's mental state, disorientation approaching the sublime. Shot mostly in Tuscany, this is Tarkovsky's own "Voyage in Italy," a pilgrimage to ruined but magical spaces—a remote chapel of miracles, a decrepit pool where, it is said, Saint Catherine of Siena once bathed—that suggest both the decay and the eternality of faith. Tarkovsky envisions a place where apocalypse may be imminent, but a single candle flame could save the world.
• Written by Tarkovsky, Tonino Guerra. Photographed by Giuseppe Lanci. With Oleg Yankovsky, Domizia Giordano, Erland Josephson, Patrizia Terreno. (125 mins, In Italian with English subtitles, Color/B&W, 35mm, From Kino Lorber)
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